http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
Getting to grips with the basics -- Models, metaphors and paradigms : making sense of the world and the road to complexity -- Chaos theory and its relationship to complexity -- An introduction to complexity theory -- The spectrum of how we think about organizations -- An introduction to systems theory : from hard to soft systems thinking in the management of complex organizations -- Organizations as learning systems -- Making sense of organizational change in practice : change as complex responsive processes -- Complexity perspectives on healthcare organization -- Complexity and the development of organizational theory -- The search for the correct organization solution for the NHS -- Organizational culture and complexity -- Leadership and change -- Facilitating emergence in healthcare organizations -- Allocating limited healthcare resources -- Improving patient access in a large medical practice : a complex and complicated system problem -- Agent-based working : a device for systemic dialogue -- Using the visual arts to facilitate emergence in organizations -- Using the performing arts to facilitate emergence in organizations -- Going on together in organizations : perspectives on healthcare provision -- Progressing clinical governance through complexity : from managing to co-creating -- Skill mix in the NHS : adaptability or efficiency -- Adaptation in action : the NHS modernisation agency's critical care programme -- Educating the healthcare professional for capability -- Going on together in organizations : perspectives on whole sytems -- Social networks in organizations : social capital and health -- Organization and communities of practice -- Imagining complex partnerships -- From theory to action : personal perspectives -- Community regeneration and complexity -- Running an organization along complexity lines -- Whole-systems working in practice : this house is for real -- Complex adaptive systems : interesting theory or useful practice : the Piedmont Hospital bed control experiment -- Applying complexity theory to primary healthcare organizations -- Using complexity science in community health promotion : novel perspectives and a tool for change
edited by David Kernick ; foreword by Helen Bevan.
Includes bibliographical references and index.